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A Rose for Emily (Tale Blazers) di William…
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A Rose for Emily (Tale Blazers) (edizione 1990)

di William Faulkner

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"As the sole survivor of a southern family, Emily Grierson maintains an aloof dignity from her neighbors, refusing even to pay taxes. Later, when she is jilted by a lover and becomes a recluse, the people of Jefferson are forgiving and protective of her. But when Emily dies, the townspeople learn the horrifying truth about the town's last belle"--T.p. verso.… (altro)
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Titolo:A Rose for Emily (Tale Blazers)
Autori:William Faulkner
Info:Perfection Learning (1990), Paperback, 36 pages
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One of the best short stories ever written! It's quirky and creepy, but has depth. Miss Emily is the last of a grand family. She is the town eccentric, living in her own world. She's a living reminder of the town's past. It's written from the point of view of the town, who are at times against her, at other times, empathic.
Be ready for a surprise ending! ( )
  Chrissylou62 | Apr 11, 2024 |
A Rose for Emily is classic Faulkner, and truly Faulkner at his finest. His recurring theme of the slow death of the old South, its isolation and its antiquated class divisions, is at the heart of this tale, where death is everywhere. At the outset of the story we learn that Miss Emily is dead; while relating the details of her life, we learn that her father dies and leaves her alone to navigate a world in which she has barely learned to live; she withdraws into herself only to be reawakened by her "lover", who uses her and then discards her, and whose death is her dark secret that keeps her further isolated from the world outside her home. And, I think it is significant that the only person who shares her secret is her Negro servant.

Faulkner has a way of making you feel the dusty rooms, see the sunlight rays breaking through the tattered curtains, smell the decay and must and mold. The house itself is like a funeral home or perhaps a tomb. The reality of death, and a death-like state for the living, is everywhere. Emily has not lived, she has wasted away, with her arms around a dream that has itself long since died. What a metaphor for the South Faulkner lived in...a world with one foot still in the past, which it has glamorized, and one foot in the unsettling reality that has followed.

In regard to the glamorization of the past, one cannot help seeing the parallels there. This man Emily has preserved and whose bones she has slept with for all these years, never loved her or intended to marry her. He was just the embodiment of a dream that was ugly and sour beneath its surface. After he was gone, she obviously nurtured the idea of him and refashioned him to meet her need to validate her own existence.

In the end she is just a spectacle for the town. Nothing of her feelings or the truth of her character was ever understood by anyone of them. And yet, she was accepted as being one of them and a part of their own greater history while she lived.


A haunting and sad tale, told with so little drama that it makes the ending all the more shocking. Worthy, as Faulkner always is, of a revisit from time to time. ( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
cw: n-slur because this is the South and Faulkner is a dick
  FleetSparrow | Jul 10, 2021 |
Recently I found this old gem, lodged behind more substantial dusty books on a shelf I seldom reach to anymore. It's a very small, short book with the story taking only twenty pages.

I say gem in the sense of exceptional writing, depicting some of humanity's subjective failings, in this case re southern culture. No doubt many are familiar with this short story by Faulkner, especially writers if they've labored at improving their proficiency.

I would comment that the blurb here on goodreads is lacking. The small book I have contains a blurb more befitting the story:

As the sole survivor of a southern family, Emily Grierson maintains an aloof dignity from her neighbors, refusing even to pay taxes. Later, when she is jilted by a lover and becomes a recluse, the people of Jefferson are forgiving and protective of her. But when Emily dies, the townspeople learn the horrifying truth about the town's last belle. ( )
  LGCullens | Jun 1, 2021 |
Nothing left but pride
never exactly married
but she got her man. ( )
  Eggpants | Jun 25, 2020 |
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-- Introduction
-- A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
-- John B. Cullen and Floyd C. Watkins, Miss Emily
-- James Stronks, A Poe Source for Faulkner?
-- William Faulkner, Comments on "A Rose for Emily"
-- Michael Millgate, Revisions of "A Rose for Emily"
-- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, An Interpretation of "A Rose for Emily"
-- Kenneth Payson Kempton, From The Short Story
-- George Snell, From The Fury of William Faulkner
-- C. W. M. Johnson, Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- Ray B. West, Jr., Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- Ray B. West, Jr., Atmosphere and Theme in Faulkner's
"A Rose for Emily"
-- Harry Modean Campbell and Ruel E. Foster, Humor in "A Rose for Emily"
-- William Van O'Connor, History in "A Rose for Emily"
-- Floyd C. Watkins, The Structure of "A Rose for Emily"
-- Irving Malin, Miss Emily's Perversion
-- William T. Going, Chronology in Teaching "A Rose for Emily"
-- William T. Going, Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- James T. Stewart, Miss Havisham and Miss Grierson
-- Irving Howe, "A Rose for Emily" as Parable
-- Elmo Howell, Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- Danforth Ross, From The American Short Story
-- Marvin Magalaner and Edmond L. Volpe, Society in "A Rose for Emily"
-- Arthur L. Clements, Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- Sister Mary Bride, Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- Nikolaus Happel, William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
-- Richard Armour, William Faulkner
-- John V. Hagopian, W. Gordon Cunliffe, and Martin Dolch,
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-- Robert H. Woodward, The Chronology of "A Rose for Emily"
-- T. J. Stafford, Tobe's Significance in "A Rose for Emily"
-- Paul D. McGlynn, The Chronology of "A Rose for Emily"
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